Happy Birthday Google

Happy birthday Google why does google have two l s why is google spelled wrong. Recently it dropped a bombshell when it announced that it has changed the way searches were returned on the search giant’s search engine.

Thousands of companies that spent millions of dollars on search engine optimization would have to shell out big money once again to get that elusive top ranking on Google pages

As far as online search goes, Google holds the lion’s share with approximately 70% of the market. The way Google managed to gain such a percentage is by providing the user with a properly good search experience.

Now the Mountain View-based company would like you to help it make that experience better – and in this regard Google is inviting you to test its new web search architecture as part of a web developer preview, commonly referred to as the “Caffeine update.”

“For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. It's the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions,” explained Sitaram Iyer, Staff Software Engineer, and Matt Cutts, Principal Engineer.

The new infrastructure, added Iyer and Cutts is not visible to the regular user as it “sits under the hood of Google’s search engine”. The only ones that might see a difference are web developers and power searchers. Google would like these categories of users (but any other users are welcomed just the same) to put the next-generation architecture through its paces and provide feedback on it.

All you have to do is visit www2.sandbox.google.com and do a search. At the bottom of the results page you will notice a “ Dissatisfied? Help us improve ” link. To provide your feedback, just click that link and type away. Make sure to include the word “caffeine” in your message.

“Right now, we only want feedback on the differences between Google's current search results and our new system. We're also interested in higher-level feedback ("These types of sites seem to rank better or worse in the new system") in addition to "This specific site should or shouldn't rank for this query." Engineers will be reading the feedback, but we won't have the cycles to send replies,” added Iyer and Cutts. (Courtesy: findmysoft.com)

Google has many of its users amazed by the spelling of its name on its homepage Googlle.

Last month many people were amazed when it put a UFO on its homepage. The whole world at that time went into huddle to know as to what it denoted.

The whole theories of UFO were discussed once again only to be told after several days that it was in memory of some games that was produced in Japan decades ago.

I think that two ls in Google is to denote 11 and not LL.

Google has been coming with new and newer products that its competitors have no answer. First it revolutionized search on internet and its competitors never came up with a fitting reply. Many after being humbled were forced to use Google searches on their search engines, instead of their own.

Initially Google had no idea as to how to make money out of its great search engine. The small revenue it was generating by providing search solutions with internet searches was no match with big plans of its young founders. And then Google adense happened.

Google adsense helped it emerge as the single biggest advertising company, helping many a startups survive on the net with some good traffic. Now thousands of websites survive on the dollars they make through their adsense earnings. This has badly affected broadsheet newspaper. A number of newspapers have been forced to consolidate in order to make them relevant in this age of online journalism and reducing ad earning. For big consumer companies the idea of spending fraction of their money on targeted traffic seems more attractive than paying huge sums on ads in broadsheet newspapers.

Later came Gmail. Users who were being fleeced by several companies that were trying to charge money on email services were relieved and very happy to have 1 GB space in their email accounts. In a world of e-mail services that offered anywhere from 1MB to 10MB of storage, Google's offering stood out. For that and other reasons, Gmail invites soon became so highly coveted that they were selling on eBay for over US$30 each. Now a gigabyte inbox is de rigueur and just about everyone who wants one has a Gmail account. So what's next?

Questions are being raised as to what is GDrive and will it kill hard drive and Microsoft operating system with it. Microsoft seems to have been attached to our PC from eternity. You may love it or hate it but cant live without it unless you decide to sacrifice a number of privileges that come with it.

Google is all set to release GDrive, its online storage service that goes beyond mere storage. GDrive will enable any device connected to internet to act as PC. In other words, there will not be any need for an operating system as such.

This is also seen as concrete step by the company towards cloud computing and if everythings goes alright and the concept catches on, it will pose a big competition to Microsoft Windows Operating system.Ther is another aspect to GDrive too. The privacy concerns will become more and more pronounced as the core concept of GDrive requires one to keep all the data online.

Gdrive is basically a cloud-based storage that should have two faces: A desktop client that keeps local and online files and folders in two-directional sync via a web interface for accessing your desktop files anywhere and anytime, using any network-enabled computer. In addition, it will come tightly integrated with other Google services to enable editing of supported document types, like spreadsheets and presentations via Google Docs, email via Gmail, images via Picasa Web Albums, etc.

A report on blogs.zdnet.com says, "The GDrive service will provide anyone (who trusts Google with their data) a universally accessible network share that spans across computers, operating systems and even devices. Users will no longer require third party applications to emulate this behaviour by abusing Gmail storage.

In a Windows environment, most users know how to use the typical C: in "My Computer". Network drives work exactly the same but are given a different letter and the files within are not stored on the computer. If my suspicions are correct and GDrive is simply a network share, most applications could take advantage of this service without modification."

Christian Zibreg of TG Daily writes of the services potential, "If the company can really deliver cloud-based storage with enough free space to hold entire content of your hard drive, it will be a key paradigm shift." He concludes his article by imagining a world where cloud computing takes over as the norm and computers with powerful hard-drives loaded with Windows operating systems are a thing of the past.

We have no doubt that Gdrive could have a huge impact on everyone... We're also pretty certain that Gdrive, Chrome and Android are important pieces of the bigger picture, the one that replaces Microsoft logo on your desktop with Google's. So, don't be surprised if the computer you'll be using a few years down the road comes with no hard drive at all, but boots the Google operating system entirely off Gdrive and the Internet.